Subject: bug#50195: [PATCH] Adding diary-offset, a diary-sexp offsetting another diary-sexp.

From: Eli Zaretskii <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 19:07:39 +0300

> From: Michael Heerdegen <[email-masked]>
> Cc: Lars Ingebrigtsen <[email-masked]>,  [email-masked],  [email-masked]
> Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2021 17:22:04 +0200
> 
> > Ugh!  Is it worth it?  If we cannot convert these functions to use
> > lexical-binding, maybe we should say lexical-binding: nil in the first
> > line of the file, and remove all those gross kludges?
> 
> That would not work, you would still get warnings about free variables.

I don't understand.  This code did compile under dynamic-binding, so
what warnings did you have in mind?

> This case is a bit special and not directly related to lexical-binding
> because these variables are just not declared with `defvar' (and I think
> we don't want to introduce global variables like `date').

You are saying this always emitted warnings?